He Disparaged the Police on Facebook, So They Arrested Him
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Does everything have to be about Trump? Sometimes I suspect that all the hate is really just a particular sort of love. You love to inject him into discussions in which he doesn't belong.
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This comment is not relevant to the article in question.
Edit: if you really want to know the answer to this question, then research whether a sitting president can be indicted.
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Probably because he isn't actually making libelous statements.
It's not false just because you don't like it.
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#7as a brown guy, i will never have the balls big enough to make comments like this.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does everything have to be about Trump? Sometimes I suspect that all the hate is really just a particular sort of love. You love to inject him into discussions in which he doesn't belong.
I think OP has a valid point.
But it's only tangentially related to the article posted.
Re: He Disparaged the Police on Facebook, So They Arrested Him
#9Just because he was arrested for criminal libel doesn't mean he will be convicted of it.
The article does a good job of presenting a high level overview of criminal libel: what it is, what the arguments around it are, and so forth. Read the whole thing.
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#10This is probably an unpopular opinion, and I'd want to think this through more, but I've been feeling recently that libel laws in the U.S. ought to be stronger. We have a massive problem with propagandists (especially on the right, but also the left) using blatant lies to manipulate opinion. The net result is a huge amount of anger & distrust.
The media is a mess. Even mainstream outlets like Fox routinely lie to their viewers. Other countries with stronger libel laws (like the UK) don't have nearly as bad a problem, and I can't help but feel like it's related. Obviously the UK has its own issues but it feels much saner to me.
In this case, accusing a specific police officer of being corrupt with zero evidence IS an awful thing to do. It's different from saying that a department is corrupt, etc. There are tons of examples of police abusing their power but this just doesn't seem like one.
Note that the standard for criminal libel requires the person to know they are lying, and that has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.